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    The Handley Page Victor is a British jet-powered strategic bomber developed and produced by Handley Page during the Cold War. It was the third and final...
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    Handley Page Limited was a British aerospace manufacturer. Founded by Frederick Handley Page (later Sir Frederick) in 1909, it was the United Kingdom's...
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    The self-flaring capability, often mentioned in discussions of the Handley Page Victor, is not inherent to the crescent wing, but may occur on any high-tailed...
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  • The Handley Page HP.88 was a British research aircraft, built in the early 1950s for Handley Page to test the aerodynamics of the Victor crescent wing...
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    The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the...
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    The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden is a British twin-engine medium bomber that was operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was part of the trio of large...
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    The Handley Page Type O was a biplane bomber used by Britain during the First World War. When built, the Type O was the largest aircraft that had been...
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    000 lbf (49 kN). It powered early versions of the Hawker Hunter and Handley Page Victor, and every Gloster Javelin. Production was also started under licence...
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    The Handley Page Hinaidi was one of two twin-engine bombers built by Handley Page that served with the Royal Air Force between 1925 and 1935. The aircraft...
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    The Handley Page H.P.42 and H.P.45 were four-engine biplane airliners designed and manufactured by British aviation company Handley Page, based in Radlett...
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    The Handley Page Heyford was a twin-engine biplane bomber designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Handley Page. It holds the distinction...
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    Handley Page HP.67 Hastings is a retired British troop-carrier and freight transport aircraft designed and manufactured by aviation company Handley Page...
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    Vulcan, which first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1956; and the Handley Page Victor, which first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1957. The V Bomber...
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    The Handley Page W.8, W.9 and W.10 were British two- and three-engine medium-range biplane airliners designed and built by Handley Page. The W.8 (also...
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    designs replaced it. The Conway engine was used on versions of the Handley Page Victor, Vickers VC10, Boeing 707-420 and Douglas DC-8-40. The name "Conway"...
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    used on the Avro Vulcan was manufactured by Cellon, and that on the Handley Page Victor by Titanine Ltd. Many Strategic Air Command nuclear bombers carried...
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    The Handley Page Dart Herald is a 1950s British turboprop passenger aircraft. In the mid-1950s Handley Page developed a new fast short-range regional...
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    Canberra, and later the V-bomber force and tankers: Vickers Valiant and Handley Page Victor. The station is also one of the few large enough for the operation...
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  • sporting equipment Victor (mouse trap company) Victor-class submarine, NATO designation of a class of Soviet submarines Handley Page Victor, a Cold War era...
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    The Handley Page HP.81 Hermes was a civilian airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Handley Page. The Hermes was developed...
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    The Handley Page H.P.24 Hyderabad was a twin-engine biplane heavy bomber designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Handley Page. It holds...
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  • civilian long-range roles. Civilian models of the Vickers Valiant and Handley Page Victor V-bombers were also planned for the same contract. The Vickers V-1000...
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    refuelling several times. The RAF's tanker planes were mostly converted Handley Page Victor bombers with similar range, so they too had to be refuelled in the...
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  • the V bomber strategic nuclear force equipped with the Handley Page Victor B.1. In 1963 8 Victors were sent from Honington and Gaydon to support FEAF during...
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    The Handley Page HP.137 Jetstream is a small twin-turboprop airliner, with a pressurised fuselage. The aircraft was designed to meet the requirements of...
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  • 990 and Fokker 100 airliners. Küchemann carrots were added to the Handley Page Victor to provide volume for carrying chaff. They did not improve the performance...
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    1993, the unit flew the Handley Page Victor. Initially on the Victor B.1A before becoming a tanker squadron in 1965 with the Victor B(K).1A/K.1/K.1A before...
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    The Handley Page HP. 75 Manx was a British experimental aircraft designed by Handley Page that flew test flights in the early 1940s for possible transport...
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    century. The wing would be of crescent form, similar to the British Handley Page Victor V-bomber, but unlike the British design, it was tailless. Power would...
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  • List of fatal accidents and incidents involving Royal Air Force aircraft from 1945 (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    June 1962 - XA929 Handley Page Victor B.1, crashed on take-off from RAF Akrotiri, five killed. 2 October 1962 - XA934 Handley Page Victor B.1, 232 OCU, crashed...
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